Mandrake Root Powder

Botanical Name: Mandragora officinarum L Common Names: Mayapple, Hog Apple, American Mandrake, Indian Apple, Duck's Foot Magical Folk Uses: It's powerful magical properties have been long revered by master occultis. Known since ancient times, it appears sculpted in various Egyptian tombs and its healing properties are mentioned in the Eber papyrus (1500 BCE). Initially used as an amulet for good luck, as an aphrodisiac and to treat infertility.   It is used in sex rituals, fertility, to bring lovers together, to bind lovers, and to increase one's abundance and wealth.  Keeping a mandrake as a charm was thought to bring good fortune.  As a plant with the shape of a human body, the mandrake was believed to exercise control over the body; it could induce love or conception, or bring good fortune, wealth and power. A mandrake root, shaped like a baby and slipped underneath one’s pillow every night, could help a woman conceive; or, shaped like a woman and carried in one’s pocket, could hel